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South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities

Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions.

$587k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.0M
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $577k
$27,622
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOB JONES UNIVERSITY$42,627
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$42,480
VOORHEES UNIVERSITY$37,411
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$36,935
COKER UNIVERSITY$35,811
WOFFORD COLLEGE$33,694
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$32,851
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSIT$29,160
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY$28,318
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY$28,161
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$27,622
BENEDICT COLLEGE$26,214
NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$23,856
COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVER$23,047
SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$22,465
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $62k → 10%CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $43k → 12%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $45k → 15%SOUTH WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $42k → 16%NEWBERRY COLLEGE: $47k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $43k → 18%COKER UNIVERSITY: $38k → 21%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $61k → 10%CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $38k → 12%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $44k → 15%SOUTH WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $44k → 16%NEWBERRY COLLEGE: $41k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $42k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $58k → 10%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $42k → 15%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $44k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $42k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $57k → 10%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $42k → 15%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $41k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $41k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $49k → 10%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 15%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $41k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $41k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $45k → 10%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $39k → 15%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $39k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $41k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $42k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $40k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $42k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $39k → 18%BOB JONES UNIVERSITY: $44k → 10%CONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BOB JONES UNIVERSITY: $43k → 10%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $49k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $46k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $43k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $41k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $49k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $48k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $44k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $42k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $41k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $41k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $40k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 20 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
1

Total granted

$5.8M
$8k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $453k · revenue +26%
  • WOFFORD COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +52%
  • CONVERSE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • BB
    BlueCross BlueShield
    one grant, 2025 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
3
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
4
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
7
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
8
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
9
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
10
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College; the most unlike its peers is Voorhees College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $452,811 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $364,781 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITYANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $362,946 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSITYCOKER UNIVERSITY: $314,961 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITYColumbia College: $314,541 · EducationColumbia CollegeNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $302,521 · EducationNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $299,418 · EducationSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $295,229 · EducationCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYNEWBERRY COLLEGE: $280,737 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGE: $272,434 · EducationErskine College and Theological Seminary: $264,609 · EducationSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $256,861 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $254,608 · EducationLIMESTONE UNIVERSITY: $251,507 · EducationCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $238,257 · EducationAllen University: $216,642 · EducationVoorhees College: $208,000 · EducationMorris College: $185,058 · Education+1 more: $171,541 · EducationWOFFORD COLLEGE: $370,410 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $362,057 · Housing & Shelter
Education$5,307,462Other$377,910Housing & Shelter$362,057

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $452,811 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $370,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $364,781 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $362,946 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $362,057 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOKER UNIVERSITY: $314,961 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetColumbia College: $314,541 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $302,521 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $299,418 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $295,229 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBERRY COLLEGE: $280,737 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $272,434 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetErskine College and Theological Seminary: $264,609 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $256,861 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $254,608 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIMESTONE UNIVERSITY: $251,507 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $238,257 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAllen University: $216,642 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVoorhees College: $208,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMorris College: $185,058 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBJU INC: $171,541 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Columbia College ↗
  • Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEWBERRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Erskine College and Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Allen University ↗
  • Who funds Voorhees College ↗
  • Who funds Morris College ↗
  • Who funds BJU INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dick Horne FoundationWatson-Brown Foundati…Central Carolina Comm…Chapman Foundation IncSpartanburg County Fo…National Collegiate A…Duke Energy FoundationCampbell Young LeadersSouth Carolina Christ…Folds of Honor Founda…Educational Credit Ma…Ibm International Fou…
Dick Horne FoundationSC26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dick Horne Foundation · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Chapman Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Duke Energy Foundation · Campbell Young Leaders · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Ibm International Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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